Nevertheless, the Consolation is not a work of despair. Lady Philosophy’s comfort is accentuated for the modern reader by the knowledge that Boethius’s dearest hope would be realized in ...

In the early sixth century, amid the ruins of the Roman Empire, Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while imprisoned and awaiting execution. Boethius found spiritual nourishment from reading, ...

Once a bedrock Christian classic, Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” has been neglected for decades. It’s time for a revival. Some 27 letters into his correspondence, Screwtape stages ...

In The Consolation of Philosophy, he summarized what the lady had taught him about how to practice the good life as: “Withstand vice, practice virtue, lift up your souls to right hopes ...

Outside academia, his name - and that of his acknowledged masterpiece, The Consolation of Philosophy - have scant public recognition, but for over a thousand years his magnum opus was effectively ...

Written in 523 while its author was in prison awaiting execution, Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” is one of the most popular texts of medieval Europe. In this masterwork, Lady ...

Philosophy can lead us toward this kind of ... you’re throwing away one of the basic sources of consolation, a rational consolation, which is attachment to the particularity of the good things ...